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Hi all i am just trying to work out a good budget to stick to and need some help please? Bangkok -> 2/3 nights Southern Thai islands/koh phi phi --> Had Yai (town on the border wih Malaysia) --> Penang --> Kuala Lumpur --> Singapore

thanks

#1cross83 has been a member since 2/5/2009. Location: United Kingdom. Posts: 7

What time of year, how will you travel, food preferences, flash or backpacker, etc.

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#2brucemoon has been a member since 27/12/2008. Location: Australia. Posts: 1,941

Posted by sirhalberd on 27/5/2009 at 10:13

No one price for every traveler! Some travelers only stay in 3 star to 5 star places and eat in fancy restaurants. Other travelers stay in cheap dorms or hostels and eat street food. Probably most of us are somewhere in the middle.

You can find cheap places to stay at in Thailand and places that will cost 6000 baht per night - where do you usually fall in at? Based on travel you have done to other countries, how much did you budget per day for that place?

For a new country that I visit I usually figure out how much I want to spend per day and then get the hotel that does not exceed that budget. Even in Bangkok you can get a place with air that starts around 600 baht, including private toilet. These cheap rooms in Bangkok may be small and even sometimes with "no window" or no view rooms.

So, figure out how much you can afford to spend per day and then ask for hotels that do not exceed that price.

That sounds much better. At Kanchanaburi , try and get to Hellfire Pass (I suggest it does more than any other place in the area to 'explain' just how hard life would have been at that time.

Also, the nearby waterfall should be really in full flow then. If so, then at least a night at Kanchanaburi will be needed. Are you including the morning floating market on the way from BKK to Kanchanaburi?

If you can get to Malacca (south of KL) you'll see a different side of Malaysia. You can take a bus there, and the bus trip to Jahore Bahru also connects - it's just a matter of taking the (frequent) bus across the straights to Singapore.

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#7brucemoon has been a member since 27/12/2008. Location: Australia. Posts: 1,941

Hi yes will defo be planing on a trip to the floating market if its the one im thinking about i think i have been there on a holiday a few years back now! its getting close now so just planing the last few things like travel money etc have work out a budget £700 for my six weeks stay

i am thinking of a prepaid mastercard called caxton fx global traveller no atms fees!! all i am open to any ideas please?

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#8cross83 has been a member since 2/5/2009. Location: United Kingdom. Posts: 7

This second link refers to costs. I don't know when it was written, but costs have increased greatly over the past 3 or 4 years.

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#9BruceMoon has been a member since 27/12/2008. Location: Australia. Posts: 1,941

Posted by MADMAC on 7/6/2009 at 14:19

Cross
You seem more drawn to historical sites and beaches (nothing wrong with that of course). I love the northeast because I really like the people out here - but it's not for everyone. You could certainly get by on 1,200 baht our here no problem at all.

Hi cheers thanks for the info 1,200 baht a day seems ok ish but hopeing to try and keep it under 1000 baht!

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#11cross83 has been a member since 2/5/2009. Location: United Kingdom. Posts: 7

Posted by MADMAC on 10/6/2009 at 00:47

Well, as an example of where I live (Mukdahan), there are two hotels in the 350 baht a night and less that are clean and have AC. Food will set you back about 30-40 baht a meal if you eat cheap (night market especially, very inexpensive). If you eat at a pricier restaraunt (there are some nice ones on the Mekong) about 150 if you throw in a large beer. So with food and lodging, say 600 a day. That doesn't include anything for recreation of course. Or bus fares, which will cost about 50 baht to get to the next province. Massage is 100 baht an hour. I get three a week.

So yeah, you can do it under 1,000 but you aren't leaving yourself money for wine, women, song and other things that most of us find essential on the open road.

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